Cork hub



A. DODGE CORK HUB Filed Sept. 29, 1948 ct w, E95@ INVENTOR.

f77 TOR/VE K Patented Oct. 10, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CORK HUB Arthur B. Dodge, Lancaster, Pa.

Application September 29, 1948, Serial No. 51,694

This invention relates to cork hubs for use on fishing reels and to method of making the same. It is a well known and established fact that in order to place these hubs on the shaft of the reel spool they must be split longitudinally and, in tially split, as at l. These slits E and l, which order to keep the two pieces together during shippreferably extend in a straight line and parallel ment so that mated parts would not become mixed one to the other, are out by suitable machinery with unmated parts, it has been necessary for in the plant of the hub manufacturer. As the the manufacturer to hold them together with an uncut inner thickness or portion of the hub 5, encircling rubber band. This method has proven constitutes a temporary fragile hinge after the to be time consuming and expensive to the manupartial cut l is made, the hubs can be convenfacturer and unsatisfactory to the user. iently and Safely shipped in one niece t0 the reel One of the purposes of the present invention is manufacturer for installation at his plant or they to provide means, integral with the hub, for can be furnished as an accessory to the fisherman maintaining the parts or halves of the hub from Customer for installation When and if desired by becoming separated prematurely, without the nethe latter. l cessity of employing the rather clumsy method Of course it will be understood that the two of holding the split arbor together with a conhalves of the hubs 5 must be eventually Completely ventonal rubber band, separated at the partial split 'l to permit of the Another object of the invention lies in the hubs being fitted over the shafts 3. This step iS provision of a hub which is completely split 1oneiTeCted by Completing the partial slit With a gitudinally on one side and `only partially split knife or by manually Separating the Completely longitudinally at the opposite side. severed edges along the line of split or cut 6 until Another object is to provide the hub with a the uncut web of material 8, opposite the partial stripe or marking along both longitudinal edges cut or slit l, is fractured. As the web 8 does not of one of the Completelyor partly cut or split areas Cnt or fracture smoothly edlaeent the out l it to assure the replacement ofthe hub or spool on becomes desirable to provide a colored Stripe, the reel shaft with their originally cut edges adj aalong both edges 0f One split, preferably the split cent to each other. 6, so that during installation it will be a simple Other improvements and advantages of this inmatter to Dlaee the tWO halves With the Original vention will become apparent to those skilled in Cnt edges adjacent to each Other. the art, when the following description is read in Having tllus desoribed my invention, What I the light of the accompanying drawings. claim is:

In the drawings; l. A hub for fishing reels comprising a hollow Figure l is a side elevation of the cork hub; Cylindrical body, Said body formed with a longi- Figure A2 is an end view of the cork hub; tudinal slit portion entirely therethrough, said Figure 3 is a section on line 3--3 of Figure 2; body also formed with a second longitudinal op- Figure 4 is a section on line ta of Figure 2; positely disposed slit portion extending onliT Figure 5 is a side elevation of a conventional partly through said body, and a colored stripe fishing reel showing the cork hub in plan View; 40 along both edges of one of said slits. and l 2. A hub for fishing reels comprising a hollow Figure 6 is a section ron line 6 6 of Figure 5. cylindrical body formed substantially of cork, said Referring now to the accompanying drawing body being completely slit longitudinally at one v in which like characters indicate similar parts side thereof to provide disconnected edges, the throughout, S designates the spool of a fishing other side of said body being formed with a longireel R upon which a conventional fishing line, tudinally disposed slit extending inwardly` only not shown, is wound. The spoolSincludes spaced partly through the body and toward the bore end casings l and '2, the former preferably housthereof to partially slit the body at said other side, ing gearing, also not shown, for actuating a shaft said second slit portion being diametrically op- 3, suitably connected at its opposite ends in the posed to and extending parallel with said first casings l and 2 for rotation by means of a hanslit portiomand a colored stripe extending along Clle 4- both edgesV of one of said slit portions.

The numeral 5 denotes a hollow cork hub which is placed on the spool of the reel in order to fill ARTHUR B. DODGE. up the space, and enable the fisherman to use a shorter line. Some reels come equipped with REFERENCES CITED the hubs already applied, While other manufac- The following references are of record in the turers supply the hubs separately as accessory me of this patent; equipmen to be removed or replaced as the fisherman-desires. However, to permit of these hubs UNITED STATES PATENTS being placed on the spool, they have to be split, Number Name Date as previously explained. vl811,26o Foss June 23, 1931 2 Claims. (Cl. 242-118) In practice the cork hubs 5 are split longitudinally all the way through at one side thereof, as at 6, and at a diametrically opposite point in the other side of the hubs the latter are only par- 

